Students embark on a journey of linguistic and cultural exploration as they take the first steps towards becoming proficient in Arabic. This course is for students who have not studied Arabic before or who have appropriate NCSSM placement. Students learn to negotiate meaning among individuals, interpret written and spoken meaning, and to present meaning via oral and written messages that focus on the themes of self, family, friends, and everyday activities in the present tense. Students will be able to greet people in Arabic, identify themselves, talk about classes and school life, discuss everyday activities, talk about family and friends, talk about pastimes, and make plans and invitations. Cultural aspects of the Arabic-speaking world are interwoven throughout the course. Web-based exercises, videos, and songs aid students in their acquisition of grammatical concepts, new vocabulary, and listening skills. (Fall 2022)

Students embark on a journey of linguistic and cultural exploration as they continue to take the first steps towards becoming proficient in Arabic. This course is for students who have completed Journeys I or who have appropriate NCSSM placement. Students learn to negotiate meaning among individuals, interpret written and spoken meaning, and to present meaning via oral and written messages that focus on the themes of self, family, friends, and everyday activities in the present tense. Students also learn to address the same themes within an introduction to the past tense and begin to develop the ability to tell a story in the past. Students will be able to discuss and plan a vacation, talk about how they feel, talk about and describe clothing, express preferences in a store, negotiate and pay for items they buy, describe their daily routine and personal hygiene, and talk about and describe food and order food in a restaurant. Cultural aspects of the Arabic-speaking world are interwoven throughout the course. Web-based exercises, videos, and songs aid students in their acquisition of grammatical concepts, new vocabulary, and listening skills. (Spring 2023)

This course builds on Journeys in Arabic II to continue building student’s communicative competence at the Intermediate Low level in Modern Standard Arabic in all four language skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing) following a proficiency-oriented teaching approach. The course also continues to 1) integrate a spoken dialect to enrich students' background in oral communication; and 2) educate students about various aspects of Arab culture through written and audio-visual materials.

This course's objectives are to continue developing speaking, reading, writing, and listening skills in Arabic at the Intermediate Low-Mid level. To this end, this course will use a variety of authentic materials and real-world tasks, including classroom and online discussions and journals, Arabic social media, and audiovisual materials.